Advertising device



(No Model.)

H. E. HAWES. ADVERTISING DEVICE.

No. 535,202. Patented Mar. 5, 1895.

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ADVERTISING DEVICE.

:EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,202, dated March 5, L895.

- Application filed August 29, 1894:. Serial No- 521,5'75. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERBERT E. HAWES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and

State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an advertising device which will more certainly attract the attention of passers-by, as to a sign, goods, or other object or exhibit, than those heretofore employed. I attain this end by my invention, in accordance with which I :5 employ, primarily, a mechanical representation of a human hand, having a movable, beckoning finger and provided with means for operatin g the beckoning finger.

In order that my invention may bev fully ascertained Ishall first describe in detail the mode in which I practice the invention'and then define the invention in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification,

in which the same parts are designated by like letters in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents an application of my improved advertising device. Figs. 2 and '3 'show the construction and operation of the 0 principal feature of the same.

The principal feature of my invention is a mechanical represen tation' of part or an en tire human hand A, provided with a movable forefinger I3, which I prefer to form of jointed sections 0, D, and E, like the first, second and A third joints of the human forefinger, so as to be capable of being bent to'beckon in imitation of the same. i

To operate the jointed fore-finger B in exo act correspondence with the human finger, I connect the first section 0 eccentrically with one arm F of an angle lever, which is pivoted at its angle'to the third section E and has another arm H connected to the wrist I to 5 which the hand is pivoted, so that when the hand is swung upward on the wrist I, as indicated in Fig. 3, the jointed finger will be 'simultaneously curved upward in a life-like fashion. Similarly, when-the hand is swung 5o downward, the finger is straightened, all the sections being operated simultaneously as shown. For thus operating the hand and beckoning finger, I in this instance employ connections J between an eccentric point of the hand A and a suitable motor indicated at O, which may all be concealed within a human figure P having the beckoning finger, as shown. In addition to the beckoning finger, I may also mount the other hand Q of the figure P, to swing substantially in the horizontal plane in a wellknown fashion, and connect it with the motor 0, so as to be operated thereby simultaneously with the beckoning finger of the other hand.

It is evident that my beckoning finger may be employed by itself or in many other applications than that illustrated, and may be greatly varied in construction and arrangement, without departing from my invention as now set forth.

Having thus described the manner in which I practice my invention, Iclaim as my inveution 1. In an advertising device, the combination with the dummy wrist and hand, and the inner, intermediate and outer dummy finger sections, pivoted together substantially as described, of a single angle lever pivoted at its angle toan eccentric point on theinner finger section and having one arm pivoted to an eccentric point on the outer finger section and anotherarm pivoted to the wrist eccentrically to the pivot of the hand thereon, whereby when the hand is reciprocated on the twist, the inner, intermediate and outer finger sections will be alternately and simultaneously curled and straightened in beckoning fashion,

as set forth.

and outer finger sections pivoted togeth y ICO to the hand, substantially as described, of an multaneously curl and uncurl thejointed fin- 1o angle lever pivoted at its angle to an eccenger in beckoning fashion, as set forth. tric point of the inner finger section, and hav- In testimony whereof I, the said HERBERT ing one arm pivoted to an eccentric point of E. HAVVES, have hereunto set my hand this 5 the outer finger section and another arm piv- 21st day of August, 1894.

oted to the wrist eccentrically to the pivot of HERBERT E. HAWES. the hand thereon, and a reciprocating motor In presence ofconnected to an eccentric point of the hand, CLARENCE L. BURGER,

to swing the hand on the wrist and thus si- J. B. PAIGE. 

